You are very brave. You are bravest human I have ever met. Is joke! I only meet one human, and is you!
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You are very brave. You are bravest human I have ever met. Is joke! I only meet one human, and is you!
ROCKY Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
ok so u know that feeling when u go out to a store and you notice that the cashier is Obviously Gay-- bc their hair/pins/vibe/whatever are a giveaway-- and u wanna let them know that you're Also Gay, but you cant mention it verbally bc that would be Weird, so u just sort of stare at them real hard hoping to telepathically communicate???
thats what this scene is to me.
The Creature calling itself Viktor and following Viktor around is so much more tragic when you know how babies develop and how newborns don't yet realise they and their mothers are two separate people. And one of the first things babies realise about themselves is that they're a whole separate person. And one of the first things they do when they start developing as a person is find out they have hands and play with them and with textures and start exploring. And when they want to start talking, they put their hands and fingers on their parents lips and throats to figure out how that sound is coming out of there and then they start imitating. Guillermo Del Toro nailed every single step of human development in such a beautiful celebration of life.
And Viktor abused the crap out of the poor creature for not being smart enough when it was only following natural developmental milestones. Because, like most men, like his own father, he wanted to create life but he wasn't interested in raising it beyond that and instead wanted it to be born a doctor ready to show the world how smart Viktor is for creating a carbon copy of his brain except in a stronger immortal body. Elizabeth gave him five minutes of love and let him explore how sounds come out of her mouth and he started talking.
Idk why some people are complaining about the movie being different from the book when the essence is literally the same, Viktor created life as if it were a godly feat and not something women have been doing since the dawn of humanity, and then he abandoned that life as deadbeat dads do. And that abandonment is what created a monster out of an innocent souls who could have become a beautiful being had it been nurtured. That's literally what Mary Shelley wrote. She would have been proud of this story. On top of being an incredibly gorgeous visual story, the narrative is very loyal to the point Shelley wanted to make.
I actually don't think culture shapes the survivors' responses as much as people are making it out to. Yes, Carol comes from a very American individualist standpoint, but also, she's the only one of them who lost the one person she loved due to the joining. Apart from Koumba, everyone else still has family, or the illusion that they do, which plays a significant role in how they think about the hivemind.
As viewers, we like to individualise Zosia. It's difficult for us to remember that, at this point, that individual is simply a vessel of the hivemind like everyone else is. Even Carol keeps turning to her when talking to the hive at the dinner, even though she could easily address someone closer to her. So imagine how difficult it is for the other immune to remember that their loved ones are not their loved ones, when the hive is so good at maintaining a semblance of normality.
Everything is so carefully crafted to manipulate them. Look at Laxmi's mother and husband -- two hive vessels! -- talking to each other. Otgonbayar's daughter and Xiu Mei's husband having normal conversations with them. Ravi grinning at his nuggets and chips like any 9-year-old would (the food choices are a deliberate part of the show, of course), reacting to Laxmi's smiles and encouragement. Kusimayu positioned between her aunt and cousin, under her aunt's maternal gaze, to encourage her desire to join them.
For us humans, it is near impossible not to fall for this. To not cling to the illusion, the hope, despite knowing the reality. Our brains have a hard time grasping the concept of consciousness as it is, and we're not wired to see individuals and think of them as one being! The loved ones are behaving exactly like themselves. Maybe there's a bit of uncanny valley there, but for the most part the act is entirely convincing. So the other survivors' reactions are not only understandable, they're inevitable, and it doesn't really have to do with their cultures.
As parents, Laxmi and Otgonbayar would believe absolutely anything if it means holding onto the idea that their children are still alive. Xiu Mei can't bear to consider herself a widow when her husband is right there laughing with her. Kusimayu is a frightened teenager who just wants to be with her family.
Just like Carol, they have lost everything and everyone to the joining, but unlike her, they have been given the horribly cruel and devastatingly kind illusion that they haven't.
Koumba is another matter. He hasn't lost anyone, because he never had anyone in the first place. You can find a more detailed discussion of this on my blog or in the Pluribus community, but, in short: we know his mother died in childbirth because of his name, and he's obviously not mourning, yet has no loved ones with him. While Carol is reacting to the murder of her wife and the violation of everything they had together, and the others are trying to maintain their past realities, Koumba is going through the sudden high of being offered everything he could ever want, and never had.
Im Not inmune to the older grace fanart lying around, also wanted to draw some of it 😭😭😭😭😭
A HC would be that grace gets small dangly rocks sewn onto his sweater that remind him of his students and obv rocky tehee
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Now what do you suppose they're carrying in that coach? – It'd be easy to find out. Get up close to it and take a look at what's inside. If they fire at you, you know it's gold.
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Hive & Consent pt. 2
People get it wrong why consent with the hive is dubious (I refrain from calling it outright rape until we have more info).
It's not because "the hive is also children, your family, etc." like yes but they are also no longer that, the hive is its own entity with its own consciousness born out of that, it simply has access to that information. And you don't have to worry that you're engaging with their bodies either, since we got confirmation that the hive does not share physical sensations.
The two issues are:
Their lack of a capacity to say no - they are compelled to please, probably as a "biological imperative". You can't argue that they do this simply because collective humanity is really nice, because they would give Carol an atom bomb if she wanted one. That would not be for the betterment of anyone, and they obviously don't really want to - just like they didn't really want to give her heroin. But they are literally unable to say no. For stursia, this particular issue isn't as much of a concern since Zosia initiated - indicating they can have/seek out their own wants as well (even if it was just to manipulate her).
Their potential lack of ability to consent for the bodies it occupies - if/when the joining is undone, how will the individual experience this? Will they still consider the choices they made while joined their own? Or will they experience it as having been mind controlled and forced to do things? We don't know yet, but the risk of engaging with someone who would not welcome it if they weren't part of the hive is high. This, to me, is the main issue. You can tell Carol deludes herself into thinking she is pulling out the real Zosia from the hive, but it's an illusion - the hive is simply pretending to please her - even if for a moment it is genuinely remembering what it was like to be an individual when it accesses Zosia's memories.
My feelings on it are - directly propositioning the hive for sex, actively seeking it out? Highly immoral. Accepting a proposition from the hive? Extremely dubious, high potential for being immoral once people are unplurbbed.
The cast of Hamnet dancing on set to We Found Love
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James talking about E. Edward Grey. This is one of the most beautiful reflections I’ve heard from an actor about a character they’ve played
linda cardellini and jason segel on the set of freaks and geeks (1999)
i have a lot of thoughts about hamnet, a lot, and while i cannot parse them entirely at this moment, i do want to share my basic takeaway which is just something...i've felt for a long time and haven't been able to adequately put into words
basically, that i think hamlet touches so many people in so many different ways is that...everyone is hamlet. love him or hate him, he is so exceptionally human. he fails, he can be cruel, he can be wrong, he can be afraid. he is evidenced to be kind and loving! and he wants love, he wants to be loved and to give love so badly! and he tries! whenever his world is falling apart he tries to make sense of it and cope in the only ways that he thinks he can!
and most everyone has felt alone and small and afraid and cowardly and useless! many people have wished to die, even for a moment! and when you look at all of this as a whole, you know that this will end in tragedy! you know that hamlet, no matter how you look at him, will ultimately fail, even if he succeeds in his original "goal". but we still root for him! we still go back to the theatre again and again and again and we pick up the play! we re-watch the youtube video! and maybe some of us do hope for a different outcome each time! but there's so much more to it than that! it is a celebration of a person who, when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, keeps fighting. you can argue that he's egged on by the ghost, yes, but in the end it is hamlet himself who takes action and makes decisions and keeps pushing forward to an ending he KNOWS will likely kill him!!
there's something so, so painfully human about it. to see things finished. to see an end. there is so much more to this that i won't get into here! without any spoilers, it was the ending scene of hamnet that really broke me, that reminded me that each person that has been touched by this play for over 400 years has perhaps known some form of grief, of pain, of misunderstanding and shakespeare imbued this feeling into so many pregnant words and has created from it some form of bittersweet hope. each word is breathing, it is alive and these characters remain within us, because they are who we are. behind each word beat the heart of someone who suffered such heavy loss
and his heartbeat remains in each and every syllable. an actor pounds their chest on stage in time with a rhythm that has been there for ages. this story and hamlet himself, are reachable through hundreds of years, thousands of years. because it's a story we keep within us. past, present, future. it all exists upon the stage. it's no wonder that we all reach out again and again and again towards something so familiar, something so painful, something that is infinite.
hamlet says that one day we'll all be gone but words, deeds, love are enduring. they may not save us, but they were there, even at the end. and throughout history we have longed to reach out towards them